{"id":646,"date":"2023-08-01T22:19:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T03:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=646"},"modified":"2023-10-07T13:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T18:07:50","slug":"ellen-ann-fentress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2023\/ellen-ann-fentress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Ann Fentress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of <em>The Steps We Take<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 21, 11:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellen Ann Fentress\u00a0makes her debut at the symposium with her first essay collection,\u00a0<em>The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning<\/em>. She teaches Creative Nonfiction in The W\u2019s low-res MFA program and is a long-time Jackson, Mississippi resident. She produced the documentary\u00a0<em>Eyes on Mississippi<\/em>\u00a0and launched\u00a0<em>The Academy Stories<\/em>, a website chronicling segregation academies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/efentress_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen Ann Fentress\" class=\"wp-image-609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/efentress_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/efentress_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/thestepsWetake.jpg\" alt=\"The Steps We Take cover\" class=\"wp-image-625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/thestepsWetake.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/thestepsWetake-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of The Steps We Take<br \/>\nOctober 21, 11:00am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}